{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-3/chapter-3/rule-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-3/chapter-3/rule-20.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1981/225",
  "legislation_title": "County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981",
  "path": "part/3/chapter/3/rule/20",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Service of notice of an order.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the notice of an order mentioned in Rule 19 shall be served and endorsed in like manner as a civil bill.\n(2) Where it appears to [ the judge or district judge as the case may be] that service of the notice cannot be effected or ought to be dispensed with, he may wholly dispense with service or may order substituted service.\n(3) Where the order is for accounts and inquiries and service of the notice on any person is dispensed with, such person shall, unless [ the judge or district judge as the case may be] otherwise orders, be bound by the order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words amended by S.R. 2013 No. 19 with effect from 25.02.13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/3/chapter/3/rule/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:45:17.527867+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}